Senator Panfilo Lacson vowed that he will join street protests if the implementation of the anti-terrorism bill will be abused once the measure becomes a law. Read:
“The Anti-Terrorism Bill is the wrong tree to bark at. I vow to join those who are concerned, genuinely or otherwise, about the proposed law’s implementation to be as vigilant in monitoring each and every wrongful implementation by our security forces, even to the point of joining them in street protests, just like what I did before during the time of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,” Lacson, one of the principal authors of the controversial bill in the Senate, said in a statement.
Lacson also promised critics that he would be the first one to call for an investigation into the abuses including those who would abuse the law.
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